Thinking about a temp gun. For my barrels.

CapnMac said:
My Klein is more polite to batteries than my General (a discount brand Fry's used to carry).
The General gets used for cooking a lot. The Klein is better at a distance for things like checking HVAC outputs.
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Ive generally heard good reports on Klein tools, but ive never used any.
Mostly used flukes for diagnostic equipment at work.

All the ir thermometers ive owned are Ryobis, and while ive generally found them accurate, they tend to eat batteries.
I used them alot for checking temps on culture vessels and mechanical stuff, batteries usually only lasted a couple weeks......i don't do anything that critical or well documented any more, so they have been sitting lol
 
LoonWulf said:
Very welcome! I havent changed that battery in years, might need to lol....I kinda forgot about them.
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I do a good bit of work on drive axles and other gearboxes in my work.If I do a ratio change on a high performance differential the temp gun goes with me on the road test to make sure I don't have the gears set up too tight.I've had several over the years and up until a couple of months ago,they all died from the batteries leaking.I bought a Snap-On unit that is powered by the 14.4 volt external batteries that some of my other cordless tools use.Much better setup.I've found it's hard to get a good handle on the temperature of a barrel because oftentimes they don't heat and cool at the same rate from one end to the other.
 
I think you need to adjust your priorities. If you need one at home, for cooking for example, go for it. But like many other shooters, my off hand works just as well with a little spit.
 
I do feel the barrel. I want to know what temps accuracy drops. I have been using it around the house. My wife uses it too for her reptiles. Last outing i forgot to bring it along. The smoke cleared. I wanted to get out while the getting was good.
 
Shoot the rifle how you shoot it. If it gets hot, it gets hot. Knowing the exterior temp doesn’t tell you much about the interior temp, and knowing the interior temp really doesn’t tell you enough about potential barrel wear or corresponding barrel life to actually care about it. It’s a novelty. I went down that road with gear I used for work - I still have two IR guns, one is a General if I recall correctly and goes up to ~600F, the other goes up to ~1200F - I’ve even built thermocouple probes to insert into my chamber, and have put temp indicating tape on the outside of my barrels to show how hot they were getting.

Guess what… None of it changed how I shot, or changed how long my barrels last…
 
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